Basic Sense

The universe consists of four elements: objects, categories, creatures, and ideas. Objects are non-living things while creatures are living ones. Categories consist of divisions of things into those which are the same as, and those which are different from, other things. Ideas consist of images of things which are also the same as, or different from, other images. Categories exist in Nature while ideas only exist in the minds of living beings. Categories and ideas correspond.

The universe is both physical and mental, material and intellectual. Creatures and their ideas aren’t remotely unnatural or alien in this universe filled with objects and categories of objects. The minds of the creatures generally comprehend these objects and categories quickly, easily, profoundly, and exactly. Appearance and reality rarely deviate. The universe has no reason or desire to hide from, or mislead, its living components, and virtually no such ability.

The objects, categories, creatures, and ideas of reality are extremely well integrated and exist in fundamental and overflowing harmony. There’s virtually no reason to suppose the universe is different from what it seems and virtually no evidence for it. No aspect or component of existence opposes, contradicts, or clashes with any other. There’s absolutely no conflict between any of the objects, categories, creatures, or ideas inside it.

Creatures are living objects which have free will, and thus direct their own actions, while non-living objects move in purely mechanical ways, based on physics and chemistry, but also very occasionally at random. The ideas inside the minds of the living entities can be mistaken, as in not corresponding to reality, but they rarely are. And yet, creatures sometimes have enough free will to deceive themselves. For the highly sentient, ironically, a rebellion against reason and basic sense is possible. The cosmos generally responds to creatures with an exceptional amount of mistaken ideas by ending their lives and reducing their components back to mere objects.

The universe continually cleanses, purifies, improves, and uplifts itself. Creatures with excessive levels of false and evil ideas inside themselves – living beings which are significantly ignorant, mistaken, retarded, demented, corrupted, or dishonest – are systematically expunged from Nature. Human creatures who have been fooled by the irrational and nonsensical metaphysics and epistemology of Parmenides, Protagoras, Zeno, Gorgias, Pyrrho, Empiricus, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, and Hegel generally don’t do well in the real world. They’re in constant danger of receiving cosmic justice and having their lives terminated.